The Effect of Defensive Exercises in the Motor Response to Develop Some Defensive Skills for Young Basketball Players

Abstract

The importance of physical and skill abilities in basketball has increased in recent times because modern
play has increased in difficulty and complexity compared to previous playing styles, and the motor abilities
and the kinetic response are of fundamental importance in building and advancing the basketball player and
works to improve the player’s level of skill and planning, and the speed of timely decision-making and the
speed of the movement’s reaction to the player, and understanding this relationship is the basis for developing
appropriate training curricula that help us reach high sports levels, so it became based on the above, the
importance of research is reflected in the necessity of numbers of curricula and training programs. As for
the most important conclusions, they were: The success of the training program in developing the defensive
skills of the experimental group and that the training program had a noticeable effect on the performance of
the players by comparing the results of the post-test of the control and experimental groups and confirming
that the special exercises had a positive effect in developing the defensive skills of basketball.